Köker PortLogger 1.0
A .NET serial-port terminal that can change communication parameters at runtime, display raw incoming data and persist captures for later analysis.
Köker PortLogger is a small serial-port terminal I developed to observe incoming data and preserve it for later analysis. Its engineering value is less about the user interface and more about making the hardware/software communication boundary directly observable.
Runtime Serial Configuration
The port and communication parameters could be selected from the toolbar, and relevant settings or output representation could be changed while the port was open. This avoided writing a separate test program for every device configuration.
With serial communication, an incorrect baud rate, parity, data-bit or stop-bit setting can make higher-level output meaningless. A useful terminal therefore exposes the raw boundary before application parsing hides it.
Persistent Capture
Writing the incoming stream to files made it possible to inspect short-lived communication events after they occurred. Byte patterns, repeated frames and device behavior could be compared without depending on what was visible on screen at that moment.
This approach later became part of the more extensive RFID and serial-communication work in my Afyon Kocatepe University IT internship. The serial-port access-control project belongs to the same line of work.
Historical Distribution
The archived package size was 547 KB. Its recorded MD5 was 4C969374B7DF72CB9CB29B04301109D2. I retain that value only as historical release metadata, not as a recommendation for modern cryptographic integrity checks.
Archive references: Gezginler, indir.com, Tamindir.
Later Technical Connection
The raw serial-data observation approach in PortLogger reappeared in my RFID-reader integration work. Reading an RFID Keyboard-Wedge/HID Reader in .NET connects serial communication, HID behavior, UID byte order and the application layer.
